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The Day of the Beast (1995) aka El día de la bestia, directed by Álex de la Iglesia, Sverin remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Spanish 5.1, English stereo dub, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112922/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available.
English subtitles converted to SRT and lightly reviewed.
Note : If Álex de la Iglesia's first film established his hysterical, slapstick genre parody style, this film was where he really came into his own, fine-tuning the mix of comedy with deadly serious situations, and the results are, well, pretty unique. It's a headlong sprint of a film, with dumb jokes about metalheads mixing with quite well-achieved, if low budget, practical and optical effects. Performances are strong, including veterans Álex Angulo, Santiago Segura, and Nathalie Seseña, as well as Italians Armando De Razza and Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who you might remember as Tony Soprano's sexy Italian neighbor, and it all kind of comes together miraculously from the chaos.
Ángel, a Catholic priest and professor of theology, goes around Madrid committing as many sins as he can. He teams up with José María, a metal record shop clerk and self-professed Satanist, and tries to get information from a TV occultist named Professor Cavan, who he believes knows how one sells their soul to the devil. The reason? A numerological interpretation of the Book of Revelation indicates that the Antichrist will be born in Madrid at midnight on Christmas Eve, and Ángel wants to sell his soul so he can get in on the birth ceremony and kill the Antichrist. After a bumbling attempt at kidnapping Cavan and his girlfriend, with an excursion to retrieve virgin blood which gets José María's mother killed, they go through with the ceremony, and although Cavan thinks he's a fraud, a black goat appears, and leaves a message indicating the devil is not fooled by Ángel's attempts at thwarting him, which makes them have to come up with a plan B involving an office building and a far-right street gang.
This is an adequate remaster, with some parts with noticeably worse quality (I think from an internegative or similar), but it's decently watchable, sound is ok (as usual, ignore the dub). A commentary track would have been nice.
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General : Matroska / 8.66 GiB / 1 h 43 min / 11.9 Mb/s
Video : HEVC / Main10@L4@Main / 11.0 Mb/s / 1 918 x 1 036 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS / *Default
Writing library : x265 3.5+1-f0c1022b6:[Linux][GCC 12.1.0][64 bit] 10bit
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 662 kb/s / 2 channels / Original Spanish theatrical 5.1 / Spanish / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 281 kb/s / 2 channels / English stereo dub / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 50 b/s / English
Chapters:
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:09:10.550 : Chapter 2
00:21:22.156 : Chapter 3
00:31:17.751 : Chapter 4
00:43:30.399 : Chapter 5
00:50:13.219 : Chapter 6
01:00:13.401 : Chapter 7
01:06:25.440 : Chapter 8
01:13:28.613 : Chapter 9
01:20:31.744 : Chapter 10
01:28:07.199 : Chapter 11
01:39:25.418 : Chapter 12
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Encoded The.Day.of.The.Beast.1995.1080p.BluRay.SEVERIN.Remux.Dual.DTS-HD.MA.5.1.h264-MaG.mkv [29.5 Mb/s]
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